M&A Deal Summary

VMware Acquires AirWatch

On February 24, 2014, VMware acquired software company AirWatch for 1.5B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is VMware’s 13th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is VMware’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is VMware’s 21st transaction in the United States.
  • This is VMware’s 1st transaction in Georgia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-02-24
Target AirWatch
Sector Software
Buyer(s) VMware
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 1.5B USD

Target

AirWatch

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
AirWatch LLC is a mobile security and enterprise mobility management provider.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

VMware

Palo Alto, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Revenue 12.9B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.

VMware is a provider of technologies designed to establish secure and reliable IT environments and address a range of complex IT challenges that include cost reduction, operational inefficiencies, access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity and corporate end-user computing device management. VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed. These internal computing infrastructures can be dynamically extended by customers to the public cloud environment. VMware was formed in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 24 of 44
Sector (Software) 13 of 17
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 22 of 42
State (Georgia) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 21 of 40
Year (2014) 1 of 5
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-15 Desktone

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

Desktone, Inc. is a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) company with an advanced multi-tenant desktop virtualization platform for delivering Windows desktops and applications as a cloud service.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-03-06 Third Sky

Alameda, California, United States

Third Sky, Inc. is a full service IT Service Management consulting, education, and technology provider.

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